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The rivers of New England are the silver chains that link together her mountains, her lakes and her seashore. 
There are streams in this country that are longer and broader and deeper, upon whose stately bosoms Commerce, 
as well as Pleasure, glides serenely to and fro, but there are none more beautiful. 

Who can name a river in New England, be it one that winds its devious way across a tier of States, or a 
mere streamlet that dashes down a mountain-side " in tangled music through the rocks," the contemplation of 
which does not stir all the finer feelings of one's nature ? Sordid, indeed, must be the mind of one who can speed 
unmoved along the gracefully cirrving batiks of the Merrimack on that glorious railroad journey from I.owell to 
Concord, or who can be whirled along the sinuous shores of the ever-changing Connecticut, without experiencing 
that quiet thrill of exaltation that comes to the true lover of out-door life in the midst of all such enchanting 
scenes. 

Even the most barren and unlovely of our eastern domains are toned and softened by the touch of some noble 
river or laughing stream. To some their names will bring up thoughts or memories that are as incense to the 
soul of the sportsman ; to more they will suggest pleasing visions of boating, canoeing, and the short but delicious 
life of the summer idler. To everyone they will conjure up sweet vistas of limpid waters and foaming falls, of 
dancing shadows cast by leafy groves or verdant banks, of far off slumbering hills whose forests gave the river 
birth, and of fair farms and busy hamlets to which its never-failing waters minister. 

The rollicking Wildcat and Ammonoosuc, tumbling riotously through the mountain fastnesses of the north, sing 
the same joyous refrain that is echoed back in soberer murmurs by the sea-kissed Kennebunk in Maine and the 
poetic Nashua in southwest New Hampshire. The happy chorus is caught up by the lordly Connecticut and the 
majestic Merrimack, to be in turn repeated by the Contoocook, the Winnipesaukee, the Pemigewasset, the Ashuelot, 
and even the far away Magog, hurrying to the noble St. Lawrence to tell what wondrous scenes of beauty are to be 
found in northern Vermont. 

Many others there are that might be mentioned, each with its own individuality, if rivers may be endowed 
with such an attribute, but all with the same seductive qualities that woo the burdened mind from cares and 
troubles. In the succeeding pages the camera of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company's special artist has 
faithfully portrayed the salient characteristics of some of the famous waterways in the territory traversed by that 
great system. 

As an expression of that which is highest in modern photographic art they will at least fulfil their intended 
mission, which is to give to those who have not yet tasted of their delights some slight hints of the scenic charms 
that invest New England's rivers, great and small. 



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